AN UNUSUAL GREEN GLAZED ‘TAOTIE MASK’ AMPHORA VASE, EASTERN HAN - SIX DYNASTIES PERIODChina, 25 to 581 AD. Thepressed body supported on a spreading foot, with long neck and flaring rim, the shoulders molded with four taotie masks suspending mock rings, the neck decorated with ribs, covered in an olive-green glaze stopping irregularly above the foot and pooling over the rim into the interior. The foot and interior unglazed, revealing the buff-orange ware.Provenance: From the collection of R. Marian Hicks, OBE, who was a professor at the School of Pathology and Department of Oncology at Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London. She was an avid collector of Tang and Song dynasty ceramics and her noted collection also included Chinese bronzes, textiles, and rank badges.Condition: Good condition with expected wear, weathering, soil encrustations and general traces of age, overall exactly as expected for a piece of this age. A small crack to the base, glaze flakes, and manufacturing flaws, including glaze recesses and firing flaws.Weight: 1,515 gDimensions: Height 26.2 cm東漢至六朝綠釉饕餮紋瓶中國，25至581年。瓶寬口外撇，長頸，豐肩，圈足外撇。肩部飾四啣環饕餮紋輔首，頸飾弦紋，通體施綠釉，外壁止於足上，内壁至於頸部。底部和內部未上釉，露出淺黃色胎。